The new iPod nano (only 8 GB) is now available in Kuwait at Virgin Megastore and Digits. I just checked the Apple UK Store (since Kuwait prices are usually close to UK’s) and found that the 8 GB is for £109 without shipping (which is equivalent to 52 KD). I was surprised to see Digits selling it for 59 KD only! while Virgin sells it for 72 KD. which is a rip-off!

I think Digits are improving and that’s a good sign, their price is only 7 KD+ and trust me, if you order the iPod and ship it (you will pay shipping to UK then to Kuwait) it will cost you more.

Digits have all colors in stock besides the yellow, orange and red models.

Call them on 2224 47 93 (Marina Mall branch), 2573 58 15 (Galleria 2000 Mall branch) or 2393 02 10 (Al-Kout Mall branch).

I was checking my feed reader this morning and was shocked to see this on Marzouq’s blog.
Starting August 16th, TSA will allow laptops to remain in bags meeting new ‘checkpoint friendly’ guidelines. Not all laptop bags are ‘checkpoint friendly’. Not backpack or accordion style, they’re not allowed anymore. I think Jansport and some other makers won’t be any happy about that.

From + Via.

On the world arena, there was, on the negative side, wars, food poisoning; on the positive side, it was heartwarming to see so the shawerma bans, Lebanese democracy and more.

Turning to my keyboard, here is a look back and ahead.

Ten Things I’d like to see Ending with 2007:

1. Weak and expensive wi-fi spots around the city & limited internet.
2. Advertisements full of misspellings and bad concepts.
3. Beggars everywhere near fast food restaurants in Jordan that’d not let you enjoy your food.
4. The Sarsari accent of many.
5. K.Fucking.C
6. Not smiling in Jordan?
7. Zain’s ugly advertisements?
8. Babies thrown in garbage because they’re not wanted.
9. People running around with Carrefour trolleys in CityMall.
10. TAXES! TAXES! TAXES!

Ten Things I liked in 2007 (and want to see more of in 2008):

1. Great new restaurants/hang outs popping up. (hint: Subway)
   OH, OH & FRED THE CHICKEN.
2. Events such as Distant Head and Tiesto in Petra.
3. New malls, CityMall alike.
4. Brands of young men strutting around the malls with tight, bright clothes and hair styled skywards – I like that, we had enough being regular.
5. Decent people sharing same interests with me (I met many nice people/bloggers this year).
6. Advertising wars in Jordan.
7. Gadgets, like the iPhone, new iPods & Operating Systems.
8. Sites like ikbis & watwet.
9. Megastores… I enjoyed Virgin & Prime this year.
10. Less whore-y looking Hijbabis.

I think 2007 was another successful year, being elected the most annoying blogger in the Jordanian blogosphere according to Ibrahim’s readers, also many people chose me as their favorite blogger on the favorite blogger day competition, thank you for choosing me and I hope you like my new stuff too, I also ranked first between Jordanian most popular bloggers, 9th on Jordanian bloggers worldwide on Alexa stats & 8th on technorati, I was also mentioned on Global Voices Online & many other blogs (thanks for having me on your blogroll list everyone) + Katy Perry’s official MySpace page as a news source.

Many other “bloggers” wrote about me under the most anonymous names of “mab3oos”, “the critic”. I met a lot of nice bloggers in real life, and I hope they liked me because I don’t believe in this “I hope I gave them a good impression” crap, I am whatever I want to be, and I don’t care if no one likes me. (take that for a motto)

I can say 2007 was beyond expectations, I had the chance to intern/work at a high-profile advertising agency in Kuwait, learned a lot, and now working at another high-profile well known advertising agency in Amman while studying. Now talking about 2007 in other fields, like studying for example… Well, last semester was nice, I dropped one class this semester and I think I might need an extra semester to finish the studying plan since some friends ended up taking 18 credits the past summer courses and took more credits than I did the past semesters.

In general, I was soaked into depression during January/February, I shaved my head for the first time in my life, put new piercings & grew a beard, shaved it, opened up, started doing new things again, grew my hair, done a few podcasts, got a new macbook, ipod, iphone and did a lot of shopping, missed many people especially steve, kloude, mohkha & josh, I engraved on linocut & plywood, met international artists, helped tourists not to get raped by the airport taxi prices, fought stores with the worse spelling/english ever, my tartool project, liked a nasheed, talked about my converse obsession, hating people who add ketchup to their pizza, missing mother and more…

I was surprised and happy for my friend Mohamad Albunni at the same time, he is now a part of a new american movie called “The Hurt Locker“. The plot is about Iraq. Forced to play a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse in the chaos of war, an elite Army bomb squad unit must come together in a city where everyone is a potential enemy and every object could be a deadly bomb.

The movie is currently filming in Jordan, for more info go to [link].

After days and days of negotiations, I finally managed to change my blog’s theme, I worked very hard today yesterday to launch the new look (Thanks Jacqui) since I felt that everyone (actually half of the people on the free hosted wordpress blogs) had the same theme as I did, even though mine was modified in many ways. However, some changes might apply. Enjoy the new theme and let me know what do you think of it?

Note: You should really try Chocolate Bar @ the Avenues… Orgasmic! Thanks Hisham, Samia and Reda for showing up.

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